Volleyball G 8 Narra
Volleyball G 8 Narra
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Volleyball is a game played by two teams
with six players on each team. It is
considered as the most popular team sports
all over the world, wherein the players use
their hands to bat a ball back and forth over
a high net. To prevent this, a player on the
opposing team bats the ball up and toward
a teammate before it touches the court
surface that the teammate may then volley
it back across the net or bat it to a third
teammate who volleys it across the net.
HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL
■Volleyball was invented by William G.
Morgan in 1895. He was a physical
director of the Young Men’s Christian
Association (YMCA) in Holyoke,
Massachusetts. Morgan designed it as
an indoor sport for businessmen only
because basketball is too vigorous for
them. He called the sport “mintonette,”
until such there was a professor from
Springfield College in Massachusetts
noted the volleying nature of play and
HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL
The original rules were written by
Morgan and printed in the first edition
of the official Handbook of the Athletic
league of the Young Men’s Christian
Association of North America (1897).
The game soon proved to have wide
appeal for both sexes in schools,
playgrounds, the armed forces, and
other organizations in the United
States, and it was subsequently
HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL
The first nationwide tournament in the United
States was conducted by the national YMCA
physical Education Committee in New York City
in 1922. The United States Volleyball Association
(USVBA) was formed and recognized as the
rules-making in 1928 and changed the name
USVBA to USAV with the same year. USAV has
conducted annual national men's and senior
men's (age 35 and older) volleyball
championships, except during 1944 and 1945. In
1949, started the women's division and 1977
was added the senior women's division (age 30
HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL
American troops introduced the Volleyball into
Europe during World War I. in 1947, Federation
Internationale de Volley Ball (FIVBO was organized in
Paris and moved to Lausanne, Switzerland in
1984.the USVBA was one of the 13 charter members
of the FIVB, whose membership grew to more than
210-member countries by the late 20th century.
International Volleyball competition began in 1913
with the first Far East Games, in Manila. During the
early 1900s and continuing until after World War II,
Volleyball in Asia was played on a larger court, with a
HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL